@JuliaSilge Hey Julia! Wanted to check in and see if this is still planned. I know there are some hairy problems to solve. If ya'll decide not to go ahead with it, we'd like to run with it as a community project.

@NogShine That close reason is for meta questions that only pertain to one specific site, and should be asked on a per-site meta instead, not for any general question that can be asked on a certain other site. Read the entire close reason, especially the last sentence.

aaaaaaahhhh that? Short version. It is a reference to Sonic Boom. Long version: one episode of Sonic Boom has Amy Rose (a female hedgehog) making a comment about "being able to break the glass ceiling". Another character - Knuckles (male echidna, also portrayed as "very stupid" in Sonic Boom because obviously muscles == stupid in the writers mind) then replies that she shouldn't let other make her think that the glass ceiling exist in the first place. This was probably an attempt to make the character appear much more considerate than what the usual characterization he gets suggest. That sa…

In case the mod who replied to one of my recent mass-comment-deletion flags (while marking it as helpful) with "if you flag a comment for a thread clean up it will be handled quicker than a post flag" is a tavern regular, FYI, the reason I use post flags for this (and intend to continue) is that sometimes in the past I've had mods not read my comment flag and just delete the single flagged comment instead of the thread.

I'm happy to have my flag take a little longer to get in front of a mod if in exchange I can be sure it'll be correctly handled

@MarkAmery I have been told by Martijn that the cut-off point is 5 comments. I use a post flag if I want a > 5 comments thread nuked in total, occasionally cherry picking comments that need to be kept (mod action will then be delete all, undelete the cherries). For 5 or less comments I flag each comment individually.

Do note I have some stock comments to go in the flag dialog to explain why the comments need to go.

Hi, as a mod that that woke up and didn't handle the above mentioned flagging, here's my opinion: If a comment thread had a long conversation and has useful comments scattered through out that should remain, individual flags are very useful. If an entire (or almost entire) comment thread can be removed, a post flag is helpful. If there are a handful (you pick a number) of comments to be removed, individual flags are good

@rene "Good morning, friendly moderator. For your information, all comments beneath this post are obsolete and can be purged. I hope your loved ones are well and the harvest is good in your locale this season."

I know most routes users visit on the site are tracked for analysis. Is this also true for private routes, for example the /admin routes? If so, would it be possible to tell how many mods/ how often they click through on the page that has counter that shows how many annotations/suspensions a user has to the history of that user? Context: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/371810/…

@rene Probably not (but...bias...). I use it to get a quick overview of user history though. It helps to see why we've contacted a user in the past. If I see several previous contacts for the reason I need to contact them today, then that increases the likelihood of needing a suspension or longer suspension. If, on the other hand, the user has been the victim of serial voting multiple times, it helps to know that too

Reported 2 issues to google, for one, got a reward and for another one, they said it isn't eligible for a reward. Hall of fame isn't processed yet. For second bug, listed on 4th page (out of 15 pages) on Google Honorable mentions

Indian English is any of the forms of English characteristic of India.
== Status of English in India ==
Hindi is the official language of the Union Government of India. However, even after 70 years of Indian Independence from Britain, English is still retained with a status of the "subsidiary" official language. Only a few hundred thousand Indians, or less than 0.1% of the total population, have English as their first language.According to the 2001 Census, 12.6% of Indians know English. An analysis of the 2001 Census of India concluded that approximately 86 million Indians reported English as their...

And, while not IT specific, I also find rather charming their use of "doubt" as an actual enumerable noun (as in, "I have 3 doubts about problem. My first doubt is...") rather than just as a somewhat poetic mass noun ("I am filled with doubt") or vague plural noun ("I have some doubts") as Brits and Americans use it

I think it's a pity (though maybe not too surprising given that it's not their nation's primary language) that many (most?) Indians seem to regard their people's own dialect of English as just being a mildly embarrassing error, and see British English as correct. Indian English speakers outnumber British English speakers, for goodness sake, and "The Queen's English" is one of the few things you'll ever here most Brits get vaguely patriotic about

And software culture is more than happy to buy into the idea of Indian English just being wrong, to the point of quoting a hypothetical person as wanting "teh codez" being a standard way of indicating that they're incapable of speaking proper English.

Sure, in that context I suppose it might not be meant as a deliberate reference to Indian English at all

But it still seems a little... distasteful... to me, that (one part of) a standard meme in programmer culture that's generally meant to mark its speaker as a moron who can't construct proper English is something that's in fact correct in a dialect used by a huge fraction of programmers.